Marija
Koruga

Marija Koruga was born in 1988 in Zagreb. She graduated from the art academy in 2012. She is a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists. Her paintings were part of scenographies such as those produced by BBC series, and she is also the winner of the Erste fragments purchase award. She was part of the Cité des Arts Paris artist residency in 2016, and in 2018 she participated in the Deconstruction of Painting residency program in Leipzig. She lives and works in Berlin.

As part of the Beauty is not enough series, Marija Koruga presents works with interesting titles aimed at female affirmation. 

One of them is Children wear scars as medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh, a title inspired by a quote from the book The favorite game by Leonard Cohen. The painting is the personification of physicality – the layering technique of resin, clay, acrylic and red pigment arouses the haptic sense. Bumps, shadows and intense color in an interesting way show and evoke in us different emotional states, perhaps memories that we have long forgotten or repressed. Through her work, the artist continuously questions the themes of gender and art in relation to social and natural frameworks.

Hana Kantoci

Marija Koruga was born in 1988 in Zagreb. She graduated from the art academy in 2012. She is a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists. Her paintings were part of scenographies such as those produced by BBC series, and she is also the winner of the Erste fragments purchase award. She was part of the Cité des Arts Paris artist residency in 2016, and in 2018 she participated in the Deconstruction of Painting residency program in Leipzig. She lives and works in Berlin.

As part of the Beauty is not enough series, Marija Koruga presents works with interesting titles aimed at female affirmation. One of them is Children wear scars as medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh, a title inspired by a quote from the book The favorite game by Leonard Cohen. The painting is the personification of physicality – the layering technique of resin, clay, acrylic and red pigment arouses the haptic sense. Bumps, shadows and intense color in an interesting way show and evoke in us different emotional states, perhaps memories that we have long forgotten or repressed. Through her work, the artist continuously questions the themes of gender and art in relation to social and natural frameworks.

Hana Kantoci